The Robotics Week series consists of three digital events focused on autonomous mobile robots, cobots, and robotics engineering.
Collaborative Robotics News
2021 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award Winners
The RBR50 awards honor technology, business, and market innovations, as well as the robotics and automation organizations worldwide that were responsible for them.
Nordbo Robotics’ Mimic technology replicates motions on cobots
The Danish startup develops Mimic technology that allows end users to record and save complex movements for cobots.
Cobot market to grow to $8B by 2030, report finds
The market had a global valuation of $475 million in 2020, which will expand to $600 million in 2021 and $8 billion in 2030, with a projected CAGR of 32.5%.
Cobot safety: fact or fiction?
Leading cobot experts will review most critical issues for the safe operation of cobots, including standards efforts, risk assessments, and safety technologies.
Vention partners with OnRobot and FANUC
Vention announces recent product partnerships with collaborative robot tool maker OnRobot, along with the addition of the FANUC CRX cobot to the Vention product line.
New UR10e cobot arm features 25% more payload capacity
With the ability to now handle 27.55 lb, the UR10e will be opened up to applications such as palletizing, machine tending, and packaging. The price of the UR10e won’t change.
Ready Robotics launches Forge/OS 5 universal operating system
READY Robotics wants its Forge/OS 5 universal operating system to do for robots what Windows did for PCs and Android did for smartphones.
Beta version of ROS 2 driver available for UR cobots
Universal Robots, PickNik, and Forschungszentrum Informatik released a beta version of a ROS 2 driver. The driver works across UR’s entire cobot line, including the newer e-Series cobots.
Universal Robots’ cobot sales up 32% in Q1
Universal Robots generated $66 million in revenue from sales of collaborative robot arms in Q1.
Universal Robots names 4 integrators to deploy ActiNav
ActiNav combines real-time autonomous motion control, UR cobots, vision and sensor systems to automate bin picking tasks or machine tending applications.
Brooks Automation acquiring Precise Automation for $70M
Precise Automation’s cobots include SCARA, 6-axis and Cartesian configurations. Precise generated $17 million in revenue over the last twelve months.
Yaskawa introduces Smart Series plug & play system
Yaskawa announces the Smart Series for collaborative robots. The product line includes robots, grippers and everything necessary to configure and deploy a collaborative robot.
Hirebotics Cobot Welder is simple to use and setup
Hirebotics announces the launch of the Hirebotics Cobot Welder. The new solution is a complete, user-friendly collaborative robot (cobot) welding system that enables painless automated welding deployments. If you’re not familiar with Hirebotics, the company is a new breed of robotics solution provider (RSP). RSP’s are the next generation of solution delivery organizations. The key for RSP’s […]
KUKA launches new iiQKA.OS operating system
KUKA Robotics launches a new open source operating system called KUKA iiQKA.OS – designed from its core, to be easy to use.
Umbratek launches kickstarter for new UTRA series cobot
Umbratek launched a kickstarter to (pre)sell a new series of collaborative robots (cobots). This new product line is called the UTRA series, and it is a modular robot built from a set of different links lengths and joint motors. The joints are driven by the patented, Umbratek ADRA series actuators. The kickstarter project has already reached to the […]
Rapid Robotics grabs $12M in Series A funding
Rapid Robotics’ solution is a “ready-to-work” robotic work cell, based around a collaborative robot, that is pre-programmed and quick to deploy.
Doosan cobots compatible with ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy
The ROS 2 package is compatible with the Doosan Robot Language, so operators who are familiar with Doosan but have basic ROS knowledge can create robotics application.
WTWH Media acquires Mobile Robot Guide
Acquisition of industry leading mobile robotics website, together with Mike Oitzman continuing as Editor, strengthens WTWH Media’s robotics brand and serves as catalyst for future growth.
Radio frequency perception helps cobot grasp hidden objects
RF Grasp could one day perform fulfillment in packed e-commerce warehouses. Its RF sensing could even instantly verify an item’s identity without the need to manipulate the item, expose its barcode, then scan it.
